PVE 6.0 - PXE installation fails

[David Herselman]

Hi,

We've been PXE booting the ISO for several years, it makes it substantially easier and faster to load equipment. We use the steps detailed in the following forum post and presume that it has Proxmox's blessings as the ISO is pre-prepared to search for the ISO image in the installation ramdisk.

Reference: http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/8484-Proxmox-installation-via-PXE-solution​

We get the following error when attempting to install PVE 6.0 in a nested PVE 6.0 environment, using PXE:

installation of package pve-kernel-5.0.15-1-pve_5.0.15-1_amd64.dev failed
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Error details:

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I've confirmed that the sha256sum of the ISO image matches:

[admin@unix-01 Proxmox]# sha256sum proxmox-ve_6.0-1.iso | grep e39315b1fc5c27ab76cbdb69a138507c19dacf1ca46cde02bea48e17791d1d50
e39315b1fc5c27ab76cbdb69a138507c19dacf1ca46cde02bea48e17791d1d50 proxmox-ve_6.0-1.iso
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Herewith the commands we use to package the ISO inside the compress installer kernel:

mount -o loop /root/proxmox-ve_6.0-1.iso /media/cdrom;
mkdir /tftpboot/pxe/images/proxmox/6.0;
cd /tftpboot/pxe/images/proxmox/6.0;
cp /media/cdrom/boot/linux26 .;
cp /media/cdrom/boot/initrd.img initrd.org.img;
umount /media/cdrom;
gzip -d -S ".img" initrd.org.img;
mkdir initrd.tmp;
cd initrd.tmp;
cpio -i -d < ../initrd.org;
cp /root/proxmox-ve_6.0-1.iso proxmox.iso;
find . | cpio -H newc -o > ../initrd;
cd ..;
gzip -9 -S ".img" initrd;
rm -rf initrd.org initrd.tmp;
chown nobody.nobody . -R;
chmod ugo=rX . -R;


PXE Boot Menu:
nano /tftpboot/pxe/pxelinux.cfg/install
LABEL proxmox-6.0
MENU LABEL Proxmox 6.0 Install
KERNEL images/proxmox/6.0/linux26
APPEND initrd=images/proxmox/6.0/initrd.img splash=verbose vga=791 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr ramdisk_size=16777216 rw​

PS: Installing the nested guest using ISO media attached to the virtual's CD drive works fine...

 

[gyq]

When I install proxmox6.0 is unable to continue, need help, thank you! !

 

[Alex Turner]

Hi,

We've been PXE booting the ISO for several years, it makes it substantially easier and faster to load equipment. We use the steps detailed in the following forum post and presume that it has Proxmox's blessings as the ISO is pre-prepared to search for the ISO image in the installation ramdisk.

Reference: http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/8484-Proxmox-installation-via-PXE-solution​

We get the following error when attempting to install PVE 6.0 in a nested PVE 6.0 environment, using PXE:

installation of package pve-kernel-5.0.15-1-pve_5.0.15-1_amd64.dev failed​

View attachment 11279​

Error details:

View attachment 11280​

I've confirmed that the sha256sum of the ISO image matches:

[admin@unix-01 Proxmox]# sha256sum proxmox-ve_6.0-1.iso | grep e39315b1fc5c27ab76cbdb69a138507c19dacf1ca46cde02bea48e17791d1d50​

e39315b1fc5c27ab76cbdb69a138507c19dacf1ca46cde02bea48e17791d1d50 proxmox-ve_6.0-1.iso​

​

Herewith the commands we use to package the ISO inside the compress installer kernel:

mount -o loop /root/proxmox-ve_6.0-1.iso /media/cdrom;​

mkdir /tftpboot/pxe/images/proxmox/6.0;​

cd /tftpboot/pxe/images/proxmox/6.0;​

cp /media/cdrom/boot/linux26 .;​

cp /media/cdrom/boot/initrd.img initrd.org.img;​

umount /media/cdrom;​

gzip -d -S ".img" initrd.org.img;​

mkdir initrd.tmp;​

cd initrd.tmp;​

cpio -i -d < ../initrd.org;​

cp /root/proxmox-ve_6.0-1.iso proxmox.iso;​

find . | cpio -H newc -o > ../initrd;​

cd ..;​

gzip -9 -S ".img" initrd;​

rm -rf initrd.org initrd.tmp;​

chown nobody.nobody . -R;​

chmod ugo=rX . -R;​

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PXE Boot Menu:​

nano /tftpboot/pxe/pxelinux.cfg/install​

LABEL proxmox-6.0​

MENU LABEL Proxmox 6.0 Install​

KERNEL images/proxmox/6.0/linux26​

APPEND initrd=images/proxmox/6.0/initrd.img splash=verbose vga=791 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr ramdisk_size=16777216 rw​

PS: Installing the nested guest using ISO media attached to the virtual's CD drive works fine...

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